The other day my girlfriend and I were trying to choose our favorite hollywood/literary/musical couples. We were surprisingly stumped and could only name a few. Jean Luc Goddard and Anna Karina, and John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands were our two picks. What are your favorites?
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 08:36 (fourteen years ago)
Mimi & Richard Farina was a very close second for us both, their story being both overly romantic and painfully tragic.
― JacobSanders, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 08:42 (fourteen years ago)
Mary Wollstonecraft & William Godwin.
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:44 (fourteen years ago)
Rainer Werner Fassbinder & El Hedi Ben Salem
― Tom D has taken many months to run this thread to ground (Tom D.), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:46 (fourteen years ago)
Percy and Mary ShelleyOrson Wells and Dolores Del Rio
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:03 (fourteen years ago)
Gilbert Roland and Norma TalmadgeMary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
― Letzte Tage - Letzte Pächmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:08 (fourteen years ago)
Good one - Pickford and Fairbanks seemed like an awesome couple. They had parties I would liked to have gone to.
― Ned Trifle (Notinmyname), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:10 (fourteen years ago)
Lou Reed & Laurie Anderson
― immer wieder, ralf & günther (NickB), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:11 (fourteen years ago)
Ida Lupino and Howard Duff.
― Michael Jones, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:12 (fourteen years ago)
Nick Cave and Susie Bick
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:15 (fourteen years ago)
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:17 (fourteen years ago)
Would enjoy the thread more if it were: best famous couplet. I would choose:
Malt does more than Milton canTo justify God's ways to man.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 00:30 (fourteen years ago)
monica bellucci and vincent cassel
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 00:32 (fourteen years ago)
me and bobby mcgee
― estela, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:06 (fourteen years ago)
we're gonna need pictorial evidence of a harpoon and a dirty red bandanna before we take that as fact i'm afraid
― socks & pwns may break my bwns (darraghmac), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:07 (fourteen years ago)
i lost them #freedom
― estela, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:13 (fourteen years ago)
Serge Gainsbourg and Jane BirkinPaul Bowles and Jane BowlesCosey Fanni Tutti and Chris CarterGeorge Burns and Gracie Allen
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:32 (fourteen years ago)
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:40 (fourteen years ago)
Anne Bancroft + Mel BrooksPaul Newman + Joanne WoodwardBogie + BacallTracy/Hepburn
― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:40 (fourteen years ago)
Jean Paul Sartre/Simone de Beauvoir
― ST 337 (Drugs A. Money), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:46 (fourteen years ago)
randy and evi quaid
― estela, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:48 (fourteen years ago)
Lotte Lenya and Kurt Weill
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:50 (fourteen years ago)
Kitty Wells and Johnnie Wright
married since 1937! they really weren't kidding when they sang "We'll Stick Together" all those years ago.
― every time you touch me (I get hives) (unregistered), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:51 (fourteen years ago)
Will anyone say Bill and Hill?
I will. The Clintons.
― deez m'uts (La Lechera), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:53 (fourteen years ago)
johnny cash and june carter cash
― estela, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 01:55 (fourteen years ago)
Ann Meara and Jerry StillerViggo Mortensen and Exene Cervenka: I know they divorced but I'm kind of in love with this pairing for some reasonPatti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe (just started reading Just Kids)Jessi Colter and Waylon Jennings
― VegemiteGrrl, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 02:07 (fourteen years ago)
sunny successor and pleasant plains
― ban drake (the rapper) (max), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 02:35 (fourteen years ago)
roxymuzak and BIG HOOS aka the steendriver
nick and norah charles
― dblake (symsymsym), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 08:28 (fourteen years ago)
― estela, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 11:48
Serious props for this btw. those two are amazingly WTF.
― The man who mistook his life for a FAP (Trayce), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 08:39 (fourteen years ago)
Cheese & Onion
― objectionable petty a-hole (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 08:40 (fourteen years ago)
Ryan Giggs and Imogen Thomas
― Mark G, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 09:17 (fourteen years ago)
Bobby Troup and Julie LondonBob Thiele and Teresa Brewer
― stars on 45 my destination (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:14 (fourteen years ago)
Dick and Liz
― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:19 (fourteen years ago)
Sonny & Cher. The Captain & Tennille. Donny & Marie (if that counts). Carly Simon & James Taylor. Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis, Jr. Greg Allman & Cher. Peaches & Herb. Gene Simmons & Cher. That other guy & Cher.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:24 (fourteen years ago)
Cheney?
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:25 (fourteen years ago)
James Brown & Porter Wagoner
― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:29 (fourteen years ago)
― Stomp! in the name of love (WmC), Tuesday, May 10, 2011 9:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
I was coming to post all of these. Classics all of them but I esp love Newman and Woodward.
― \(^o\) (/o^)/ (ENBB), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:56 (fourteen years ago)
Joseph Bologna & Renee Taylor. Peter Bogdanovich & Cybill Shepherd/Dorothy Stratten.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 15:59 (fourteen years ago)
willard maas and marie menken (the model on which i base all my relationships)
― spätzle logic (donna rouge), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:00 (fourteen years ago)
Marilyn Monroe & Joe DiMaggio/Arthur Miller/JFK/RFK.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:01 (fourteen years ago)
Geff & Sleazy (Coil dawg)Neil & Jennifer (Royal Trux yo)Twig & Carly (Nautical Almanac bitches)
― the tune is space, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:01 (fourteen years ago)
Marina Abramovic + Ulay
― the tune is space, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)
^^YES
― spätzle logic (donna rouge), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:02 (fourteen years ago)
Bjork Gudmundsdottir + Matthew Barney y'all
― the tune is space, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:03 (fourteen years ago)
some of these alliances were, shall we say, short and tempestuous?
― resistance does not require a firearm (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:04 (fourteen years ago)
and how could we forget john cage and merce cunningham!
― spätzle logic (donna rouge), Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:05 (fourteen years ago)
Benjamin Britten & Peter Pears
― anatol_merklich, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 16:39 (fourteen years ago)
Xpost: ahh, beat me to it by 2 posts!
Rock Hudson and Doris Day!
Alfred Steiglitz and Gerogia O' Keefe
― EDB, Wednesday, 11 May 2011 17:53 (fourteen years ago)
Casey abrams & Haley Reinhardt
― ST 337 (Drugs A. Money), Thursday, 12 May 2011 02:37 (fourteen years ago)
I don't know willard maas and marie menken but just googled them. Why was their relationship a model? Should I find their films?
Also Boris Pasternak and Marina Tsvetaeva. Although they were having an affair they seemed so dreamy.
― JacobSanders, Thursday, 12 May 2011 03:11 (fourteen years ago)
Y'know how celebrity couples these days need catchy portmanteau names? I'm planting my flag on the moniker "Pliam Aneederson"
― Halfway there but for you, Monday, 28 July 2025 11:21 (three months ago)
Ray & Charles Eames
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 28 July 2025 12:15 (three months ago)